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By Eduardo Porter As negotiations between Greece and its creditors stumbled toward breakdown, culminating in a sound rejection on Sunday by Greek voters of the conditions demanded in exchange for a financial lifeline, a vintage photo resurfaced on the Internet. It shows Hermann Josef Abs, head of the Federal Republic of Germany's delegation in London on February 27, 1953, signing the agreement that effectively cut the country's debts to its foreign creditors in half. It is an image that still resonates today.

How does one describe Renault's attempt to crack the small car segment, currently dominated by Maruti and Hyundai? Considering its one of India's youngest car brands, the terms that crop up are suicidal, a matter of survival and even audacious. When asked, Carlos Ghosn, group CEO of Renault-Nissan Alliance, a self-confessed admirer of Indian frugal engineering replied with a straight-face, "I cannot qualify my attempt as audacious; you can!" This was during a media roundtable with the Renault senior management who had swooped down to Chennai recently to unveil the company's maiden foray into the entry-level segment with Kwid.

By Pranbihanga Borpuzari Great companies take time to build and while it is natural for young entrepreneurs to feel impatient, success takes time, says Naukri.com (Info Edge India), Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Sanjeev Bikhchandani . Bikhchandani, who is considered as one of the foremost authority in the Indian entrepreneurial space, says the best way to build a startup is still through the good old bootstrapped way. "Bootstrapping is a great experience as it teaches you the value of money.

CHENNAI: Spain headquartered Gamesa, which is close to commissioning 2000MW of wind power in India, has entered the solar scene in India, aiming to capture what it sees as a vacuum in developing and executing solar projects. Gamesa has tied up with Best Cotton, Shiny Knitwear, and Santhosh Garments for a 10 MW solar farm for the textile entrepreneurs in Tamil Nadu's textile belt. The company says this is just a start. "Our success in wind has been due to very strong project execution, which we will leverage for solar," said Ramesh Khymal, chairman and managing director for Gamesa India . Gamesa plans to make solar photo voltaic modules created specially for Indian conditions, in which panels rigged to stand snowfall in European conditions fail.

AKAGERA: Groggy on their paws after waking from tranquillizers, lions have returned to Rwanda for the first time since the endangered animal was wiped out following the country's 1994 genocide. Seven lions -- two males and five females -- were transported in a marathon 30-hour journey from South Africa - first by air, then the final stretch by road to Rwanda's eastern Akagera National Park. Schoolgirls sang outside the park in Akagera, a 112,000-hectare (276,800-acre) park bordering Tanzania, welcoming the predators as they ended their journey.

NEW DELHI: A government policy that protects net neutrality is critical for the success of its Rs. 1.13 lakh crore Digital India program as any sort of prioritizing, throttling or blocking of the Web would stifle the digital ecosystem in the country. According to experts, preserving an open internet will prove to be the true test of whether the Narendra Modi government is able to execute its vision of Digital India. "The PM spoke of creating more Googles and successful start-ups in the country under the Digital India initiative and that can only happen if the Internet is neutral," said Nikhil Pahwa Founder, Editor & Publisher, Medianama.com.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated the successful candidates of civil services examination and advised those who could not make it that they should not be deterred from future endeavours. "Congratulations to all those who successfully cleared the Civil Services Exam and my best wishes as you begin the journey to serve the nation," he tweeted. "To those who didn't clear the exam - such moments are a part of life. This must not deter you from your future endeavours.

- Microsoft founder Bill Gates served as a Congressional page. Already an accomplished computer programmer — he'd started at 13 — a young Bill Gates spent the summer of 1972 working in Washington, DC, as a Congressional page, according to CNN's timeline. At Inc., Bill Murphy , Jr. speculates that this might have shaped Gates more than one might guess. "It wouldn't seem to have much to do with starting Microsoft," he says, but "it could have sparked an interest in public policy that led him to launch the Gates Foundation.

ANTWERP: Young player Jasjit Singh Kular's fine show in the ongoing World League Semifinals has brought a village on the outskirts of Punjab's Jalandhar city back into the focus of the hockey fraternity. Jasjit hails from a small village Sansarpur, on the fringe of Jalandhar city that used to be the hub of Indian hockey in its heydays. Known as the hockey village among the sports buffs, Sansarpur was a tiny hamlet that provided a number of Olympic medal winners when hockey was a craze and India were the prima donnas of the international game.

By R Suresh In the recent past, three of the top ten tech companies in India have gone through a purportedly well thought through succession planning process for the top job. In all these instances, succession was a result of the retirement of the existing CEO. Being in the same industry, the environment & market facing challenges, as well as the external scenario were pretty much the same. Given this, one would assume that the three companies should have pretty much got their act right in 'successfully appointing the successor'.